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Zombieland

Synopsis

This place is so dead

Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

There has been a recent resurgence in popularity over the past few years in the horror/comedy subgenre. Whatever the cause, the majority are pure horror films merely with a sense of humor. There might be some laughs, but the meal still tastes like fear. Zombieland is exactly the other way around: it's a broad comedy soup with dashes of zombie dystopia mixed in. There are zombies at the start and end of the movie, but in the middle it's all about the humans.

Of course this doesn't mean either that the film doesn't deserve its horror classification or that fans of the genre won't find plenty to like. There's…

I am positive that this is a good movie but it's only sin is being too short. At the end leaves you saying, That's all? I like the approach it gives to resisting zombies. It's fun yet simple as to applying rules in defending yourself against zombies. Just think of the walking dead but mixed with pg-13 comedy and violence.

This was a rewatch, and didn't really enjoy it anywhere near as much this time round. As a comedy I don't think it was a patch on Shaun of the Dead and suffered from pacing issues throughout. The last 15 minutes were great, and the first 20 minutes were good too, but I really felt it got quite a bit boring in places in between. Too much melodrama and not enough comedy genius or zombies! If it wasn't for Bill Murrays cameo spicing things up a little in the middle then I feel that this movie wouldn't have been quite as well recieved as it was.

And that's all I have to say on it really. It brought out a few chuckles, and the ending gave a little excitement but apart from that, it was a fairly average movie with a script that wasn't quite as clever as I remembered. Good gore effects though. 6/10

When it comes to comedies that feature Zombies it's hard to look past Edgar Wright's Shaun Of The Dead on the laughter stakes. It captured the balance between comedy and some over-the-top gory greatness to stunning effect in what really was the first film of a new genre. Ruben Fleischer would follow the exact same path only with a bigger budget and the emphasis on some show stopping Zombie kills. When America is torn apart by a Zombie apocalypse only a few humans are left as they battle to avoid becoming a snack for the un-dead. Told from the point of view of Jesse Eisenberg's "Columbus", he has tongue-in-cheek style rules that have kept him alive so far. Traveling back…

She doesn't wield one at any point during the film, does she? Or did I phase out at that point? As Woody Harrelson says at one point here, "That's false advertising!"

You know, I'm going to seem like a complete hypocrite here considering all the moaning I've done recently about films being too long - but Zombieland is too short. I'm not saying it should have been, like, an hour longer or anything but just 10 or 15 minutes just to boost a couple of the ideas here might have saved it all from feeling like it ended rather abruptly, because that's what…

had already seen this movie before and this became one of my favorites in the reemerging genre of zombies some time ago, so I got to see this movie with my niece of 14 years (Danna), who didn't know what to see on Netflix , so I took up the matter and helped her choose. I didn't know what to expect from her reactions but in the end she liked too, the best part of this is that on her young age, she met Bill Murray, so we'll see some of his films soon.

Ruben Fleischer directorial debut is an absurd outlandish no brainer comedy full of Gags and humour with sprinkles of drama. As soon as the intro credits sequence begins and Metallica starts, I knew I was going to love this film.

The end is here.. Young college student, going by the name of his hometown, Columbus is an unlikely survivor of the once populated land is now a breeding ground for infectious mutated flesh eating Zombies. Columbus manages to finally discover other survivors in this forsaken country, One man on a mission for a Twinkie and two girls who aren't so trust worthy.

I am positive that this is a good movie but it's only sin is being too short. At the end leaves you saying, That's all? I like the approach it gives to resisting zombies. It's fun yet simple as to applying rules in defending yourself against zombies. Just think of the walking dead but mixed with pg-13 comedy and violence.